Thread by @MrBikesABunch

Alright folks - if you've been in the @ThrivanceGroup's #DICEEthics Seminar with @DrDesThePlanner here is your reading list, cultivated from over 50 pages of Chat logs. Let's go.

First topic - Ariana Brown and her work on community, arianabrown.com

Next up: Kimberley Jones - How Can We Win - what are the acceptable forms of protest when communities are consistently rendered hopeless?

You need to follow @kimlatricejones and check her site here: kimjoneswrites.com/about

There were comments about the value of Black Joy, and how important it is to centre the production of Joy as an outcome in your projects. vogue.co.uk/arts-and-lifes…

On getting specific to make things matter: "The more specific we are, the more universal something can become. Life is in the details. If you generalize, it doesn't resonate. The specificity of it is what resonates."

Jacqueline Woodson

The long, racist history of highways, and why there is a growing movement to bring them down: nytimes.com/interactive/20…

I don't think it was this particular piece that was mentioned on Day 1, but the brilliant Rinaldo Walcott was referenced, and it's always a good excuse to link to this: macleans.ca/opinion/we-mus…

In NYC, The Mayor's Action Plan for Neighborhood Safety started off with the old-school CPTED approach but evolved to meet the needs of the community. map.cityofnewyork.us

More from NYC - a Workbook for the MAP Project: map.cityofnewyork.us/wp-content/upl…

Finally, the MAP Report from NYC: map.cityofnewyork.us/wp-content/upl…

The role of Advocacy vs Mobilizing vs Organizing and the role that planners need to play was raised, citing work by Jane McAlevey and others: janemcalevey.com - how do we engage in a way that generates power rather than contains it?

Michelle Alexander's "The New Jim Crow" highlights how the prison system impacts everyone. White people are not the target but they are collateral damage. whiteness targets blackness but will destroy its own to maintain itself (Jazz). newjimcrow.com/about

There was so much wisdom being dropped by @JazzJazzBell during Day 1. Their insights into disability, race and access were so powerful. Find them here: jazzbell.me

Thanks again to @JazzJazzBell for linking to the working definition of Ableism developed by @talilalewis and @notthreefifths (too long to tweet, so go read it here and keep yourself updated!) talilalewis.com/blog/working-d…

If you want to see ableism in action, watch the documentary HALE:

OK, so now that we've defined ableism and understand how it harms us all, let's look to a future that considers everyone, and marvel at the benefits that universal design has brought into our lives, and how it can make our lives even better if we let it. penguinrandomhouse.com/books/561049/w…

It wouldn't be a #DignitySquad event if there wasn't art to go with the radical ideas. You need poetry to remind you of the beauty and emotion in the world: graywolfpress.org/books/dont-cal…

And finally, you need REST. Thank you to @TheNapMinistry for always calling out the radical power of rest to reclaim your bodily autonomy. thenapministry.wordpress.com

That's it for the reading list from Day 1. I'm off to rest. Will publish Day 2 tomorrow. Can't wait to reconvene with you all once again.

OK Picking this back up to put Day 2 live! #DICEEthics

The first thing we got into was the Phases of Displacement. We started more broad, with an evaluation based on international development: nzdl.org/cgi-bin/librar…

From there we got more specific, and the must-read "Here to Stay" Report from @ThrivanceGroup was shared. Read it. transformfresno.com/wp-content/upl…

We also got talking about language and its power (always brought about by @franfreemanhkh!), which led to a discussion of how gendered pronouns influence how we perceive the built environment, and what a pronoun like iel can say plainenglish.com/lessons/iel-in…

We talked about how the idealized "types" of people on bikes don't account for so many different types of people, and the importance of broadening that lens in terms of who gets to access public space: portlandoregon.gov/transportation…

Then we got into a bit of a listening list! First up, the always insightful @99piorg 99percentinvisible.org/episode/where-…

Next, the Freakonomics podcast about the way gender influences well, everything!
podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/10-…

Next, a reference to @ctbrown1911 and his new #ArrestedMobility Podcast arrestedmobility.com

Last podcast episode was the @TorontoStar episode of This Matters, on why excellence shouldn't be the standard on which Black Women are judged to have value. thestar.com/podcasts/thism…

Got your listening list? Good. Back to reading. First up, how language matters again, when Biden refuses to use race-based language in allocations of funding to address environmental racism nytimes.com/2022/02/15/cli…

Then we got onto the topic of #HousingSegregationInEverything in the context of Baltimore internationalmapping.com/blog/a-brief-h…

From there, the conversation turned to Policing and Abolition. Looking at the impacts of overlooking people who White Bicycle Advocates don't value, especially in the context of #DijonKizzee (TW -Police Violence) cnn.com/2021/02/11/us/…

People on bikes are made invisible if they don't fit the traditional image of who 'should' ride a bike according to white bicycle advocates. strongtowns.org/journal/2017/5…

There's slow progress, like Seattle dropping its Bike Helmet rule because enforcement was found to be racially-biased nytimes.com/2022/02/18/us/…

But for every step in the right direction, there's setbacks like the Philadelphia Police Union suing the City to be able to continue stopping people with no cause. inquirer.com/news/philadelp…

Imagining a world without police is more than we could get into in a 3 hour seminar. But there are resources shared like We Do This Till We Free Us by Mariame Kaba goodreads.com/book/show/5601…

Becoming Abolitionists by Derecka Purnell penguinrandomhouse.com/books/675803/b…

Policing the Open Road hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?is…

A World Without Police by Geo Maher: versobooks.com/books/3783-a-w…

Abolition. Feminism. Now. By Angela Davis
bookshop.org/books/abolitio…

Finally, Abolitionist's Handbook by Patrisse Cullors typebooks.ca/products/an-ab…

But isn't Automatic Enforcement the answer, I hear you asking. Not if it still sits within the racist history of enforcement.
propublica.org/article/chicag…

Wrapped up Day 2 with a recommendation to attend a lecture by Dr. Crystal Fleming on Rainbow White Supremacy: calendars.illinois.edu/detail/169/334…

Day 3 Firing Up! #DiceEthics

First up, if you don't know about #UnurbanistAssembly, it's where I first really encountered the brilliance of @DrDesThePlanner and it changed my life. unurbanist.com

Want to read more on the history of racism and its impacts on gender? Follow @alokvmenon instagram.com/p/CUkka3pLoe9/…

Getting into some discussions about how Race is a social construct, and how that construct and its experience influences so much of the world around us. theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

You can dig into this a bit more with @NPRCodeSwitch - a heads up - It's Complicated. npr.org/transcripts/60…

We didn't get into anything specific beyond highlighting the coming study on how 311 is a biased service, but you should definitely be following @CNT_tweets so that you see that when it drops. #DICEEthics

Language matters. Don't refer to Indigenous Nations as "Stakeholders". ictinc.ca/blog/9-terms-t… #DICEEthics

Communication doesn't need to perpetuate past harms. LEarn the importance of language and of communicating non-violently here: cnvc.org #DICEEthics

A resource about theorizing communal trauma to help planners understand how racialized communities hurt, journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.117… (Academic Paywall alert!)

Finally, Hotel 22 - a short film about how transit becomes a place of refuge. vimeo.com/99568631 #DICEEthics

I'm not going to capture all of the nuance in all of these because they're not my resources. But it's the collective knowledge of 9 hours with over 100 brilliant, empathetic individuals wrestling with complicated issues, crises and dilemmas. #DICEEthics was amazing.

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